Electric meter.



A. J. H. FIEGO. ELECTRIC METER.\ APPLICATION FIRED mm. 20. 1914.

1,226,491 Patented May 15, 1917.

Witnesses Inventor Alex 'ander JRF'ie b His Attorneg.

UNITED STATES PliTENToFFIon ALEXANDER I. R. FIEGiO, 0F LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO GENERAL ELECT-RIC COMPANY, A CORIORATION OF NEW YORK.

ELECTRIC METER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1917.

Application 11183 March 20, 1914. Serial No. 825,998.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER J. 1t. Fuzco, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lynn, county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Electric Meters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to electric motor meters and in general to electric 'motors of the electric meter type.

ventioiu ore particularly relates to the ratio or redud tion gearing betweenv the register and the rotatable shaft of an electric motor meter, and more generally the gearing between the rOtatable shaft of an electric motor of the electric meter type andthe memher to be driven thereby.

The object of my invention is to generally improve and-simplify the mounting for the ratio or reguction gearing of electric meters and such ther apparatus as myinvention relates to, and to provide a mounting and reduction gearing connection of novel and sim 1e construction.

" efeatures of my invention which I consider patentably novel are definitely in dicated in the claims appended hereto. The construction of a combined meter register and cooperating reduction gearing adapted for direct connection to the meter shaft and embodying the novel features of my.invention will be'understood from the following description taken in connection withthe acmomma, This register gear traii'r cdn'iprises three gear. Wheels 7 sand 9' secured to' sli'afts 10, 1 1 and 12 respectively. The shafts are journaled in suitable bearings or pivot holes in the plates 5 and'6, and each shaft carries a dial pointer 13. Pinions14 and 1 5 are secured to the shafts 10 and 11 respectively and mesh with and drive the gear-wheels 8 and 9 respectively. The first gear 16 of the integrating gear train meshes with and side of the bracket.

drives the ear Wheel 7 and is carried by a shaft 17. fl dial ointer 13 is also secured to the shaft 17 '1 1e gear ratio of the gears 1c, l-l and 15 and the gears 7. 8 and 9 is 1 to 10, as well understood in the art.

A. bracket 18 is rigidly secured to the plate 5 by means of screws 19. This bracket in conjunction with the plates of the register is adapted to form the sole mounting for the ratio or reduction gearingoperatively' connecting the meter register to the rotatable shaft of the meter. The novel and peculiar configuration of this bracket is best' illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

The bracket is bent so that its outline forms an incomplete rectangle, the incomplete portions of the rectangle being a corner and a part of the two adjacent sides.

'hole 21 in the plate One extremity 18 of the bracket 18 has an upwardly projecting portion which has a pivot hole or bearing 22 for a shaft 22-3. The other bearing of the shaft 23 is formed'in a projection 24 on the opposite and parallel The shaft 23 carries a gear wheel 25 and also a pinion 26 which latter meshes with a gear wheel 27 secured to the shaft 17.

A shaft 28 having a worm gear 23) meshing with the gear wheel is journuled at one end in the side 18 of the bracket 18 and ntth'e other end in a bearing nlenibor 30 ad- ]ustably secured to the brai'lk'ot. lfh'ul thrust the-heads of the screws 31 engagiwith the extremities of the :ul nu-ou't pivots '32 and fhnnt l'o'ngitlulu'inl nu'nombnt oi the shaft 2H.

butso that tho heml oi thosoroh" is always in o )orati\'iongagonu-nt with tho coopol ating pivot regardless of the poslllon ol' the screw. llnch screw thus hunts the move- "screws 31 having enlarged heads aro"posil tlQlltd on the bracket 18' and the bear ng member 80 in operative relation to 'plvots ment of the shaft in one direction, and by turning" one or both of the screws the play I of the shaft can be adjusted. I

. bearing mem The arran ement and operation of the fier 30'will be best understood by reference to Fig. 2 of the drawings. One end of the member30 extends into a slot 33 in the plate 5. The engagement of the bearing member with the ends of this slot in conjunction with a set-screw 36 firmly secures the member to the bracket. The bear-.

ing member has a substantially rectangular shaped hole 34 in which an eccentric cam 35 is positioned. The eccentric cam 35 is mounted to' turn in a bearing in the other extremity 18 of the bracket 18. as will be best seen by reference to Fig. 1 of the drawings. The cam surface of the eccentric cam 35 engages the 'sides of. the hole 34, and thus the bearing member 30 can be moved with respect to thebracket 18 by turning the cam '35. The set-screw 36 extends through aslot 37 in the bearing member 30 and is adapted to secure the 'bearing mem her in its adjusted position to the extremity 18"of the bracket.

The shaft 28 carries'a gear ,wheel 39 which is directly in mesh with a worm gear 40 on the rotatable meter shaft 41. It will.- therefore, be observed thatby turning the eccentric cam 35 one end of the shaft 28 is moved whereby the operative engagement of the gearing between the meter shaft and the shaft 28 can be adjusted.

It 'will be observed from the foregoing description that the meter register and re 'duction gearing are secured together and operatively mounted in a single unitary structure adapted for direct connection to the meter shaft. The plates 5 and 6 are suitably spaced apart by spacing sleeves42.

Bolts 13 extend through the plates 5 and 6 and the sleeve 42 and serve to attach the' meter register and cooperating reduction gearing to fixed posts 4- of the meter so that gear wheel 39 is 1n operative engagement wheel 39 may be unsatisfactory due to slight imperfections in the construction of the pants or the assembling thereof. The adjustable bearing member 30 for one end of the shaft 28 overcomes thisfdifiiculty. since by movement of the member 30 the gear connection between the meter shaft and the shaft 28' can be satisfactorilyadjusted.

Various applications of 1y invention to the rotatable .shafts :of electric motors of the electric meter type wi l] be obvious to those skilled in the art. Xumerous modifications in the details of construction and arrangement or parts of the meterre 'ster and attaching gearing hereindescri will further be apparent to those skilled in the appended claims to cover all modificationsand arrangements of parts within and scope of my invention. T

\Vhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is,-

1. In an electric motor of the electric meter type, a rotatable shaft, a second shaft operatively geared to said. rotatable shaft, a fixed bracket, :1 bearing member havin a bearing for one end of said second shaft and having a hole therein, means for securing said bearing member to said bracket, and means including an eccentric cam positioned in said hole and rotatably mounted on said bracket for adjusting theposition of said member with respect to the bracket whereby the operative engagement of the gearing be tween said two shafts is adjusted.

' 2. In an electric motor -of the electric meter type, a rotatable shaft having a worm the spirit gear, a main supporting plate, a bracket secured to said plate, a bearing adjustably secured to said bracket, :1 second shaft journaled at one end in said bracket and at the other end in said bearing, a gear wheel on said second shaft meshin with the worm gear onsaid rotatable s aft, said second shaft also having a worm gear, a third shaft journaled at both ends in said bracket, and carrying a gear wheel meshing worm gear on said second shaft, a fourth shaft journaled at one end in said bracket, and intermeshing gears connecting said third and fourth shafts.

3. In an electric meter, a rotatable shaft, asecond shaft operatively geared to said rotatable shaft, a fixed bracket, 9,, bearing member having a bearing for one end of said second shaft and having a hole therein, an eccentric cam mounted on said bracket and positioned in the hole of said bearing memberwhereby the position of said member with respect to said bracket can be adfiusted by turning said eccentric cam, aset- -screw operativel engaging said bracket and adapted to secure the bearing member to the bracketin its adjusted position, a member to be driven by said rotatable shaft, and

with the p shaft to said member.

,. meter shaft, a second shaft operatively geared to the meter shaft, 8. fixed bracket having a pivot hole in which one end of said shaft is' journaled, a bearing member harin a pivot hole in which the other end of sai shaft is journaled, said bearing member also having a second hole therein, an eccen- 4. In an electric mqtor' meter, .a rotatable tric cam mounted on said bracket and positioned in said second hole hereby the posi tion of said member with respect to said bracket can be adjusted by turning said eccentric cam, a set-screw adapted to secure said member to said bracket in adjusted position, a meter register, and gearing operatively connecting said second shaft to the meter register.

In an electric motor meter, a rotatable meter shaft having a worm gear, a meter register comprising an integrating gear train and two parallel plates between which said gear train is suitably mounted, a bracket secured to one of said plates, a hearing adjustablysecm'ed to said bracket, a second shaft jonrnaled at one end in the bracket and at the other end in said bearing, a gear wheel on said second shaft meshing with the worm gear -o1i said meter shaft, said second shaft also having a worm gear, a third shaft journaled at both ends in said bracket and carrying a gear wheel meshing with the worm gear on said second shaft, a fourth shaft carrying the first gear of the integrating gear train and journaled 

